At Risk With Only Guidance For Protection: Restraint And Seclusion Policy For Nebraska Students - webinar
The use of restraint and seclusion presents significant health and safety risks to students. Students continue to endure severe injuries and death from the use of restraints and seclusion. Children with disabilities are at particular risk of being restrained and/or secluded and disproportionately so. Students are sometimes restrained as discipline for minor infractions, even when the student’s behavior appeared not to be aggressive. Students are often restrained without prior parental consent, incident reporting to parents, or despite explicit parental instructions not to use restraint or seclusion. Nebraska requires each school district adopt a policy regulating and authorizing the use of restraint or seclusion. Because Nebraska only requires that a policy be in place, issuing only non-binding guidance as to what these policies should entail, district policies vary widely across the state and even across town.
This presentation intends to educate about the extent of restraint and seclusion use in schools, raising awareness of the significant safety and health risks, the current system by which Nebraska authorizes and regulates schools’ use of seclusion and restraint, and some questions parents can ask or resources to use if the use of restraint or seclusion is suspected.
Our guest speaker is Brad Meurrens from Disability Rights Nebraska.
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PTI Webinars will be presented two times.
Lunch and Learn at 12:30 – 1:30pm CT (11:30am to 12:30pm MT)
Late Night Learning at 8:30 - 9:30pm CT (7:30-8:30 MT)
